https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yours-truly-johnny-dollar-charles-russell-premiere-era-1949-1950--7203269enSociety & CultureCopyright 07 Audio Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b43cafd9bf46079d92dfd53d0da763ad.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yours-truly-johnny-dollar-charles-russell-premiere-era-1949-1950--7203269Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:07:08 +000007 Audio Network07 Audio Networkinfo@07audio.loveJohnny Dollar is not a cop, not a private eye with a downtown office — he's a freelance insurance investigator who gets called in whenever an insurer smells something wrong with a claim, and every case becomes a first-person account itemized, expense...false80e89661-80f9-5875-9709-105067008defepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bodyguard-to-anne-connelly--73830776https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73830776Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:01:02 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 3rd, 1949. Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar is dispatched to Milwaukee to protect a nervous policyholder as her paroled ex-fiance, jailed for grand theft, walks free after five years and threatens to make good on an old promise of...17701940s detective,film noir,insurance investigator,jealous ex-con,milwaukee,old-time radio,parole and revenge,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-skull-canyon-mine--73783246https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73783246Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:01:20 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 26th, 1949. Johnny Dollar heads to a dusty gold mine outside Twin Buttes, Arizona, to find out why the Skull Canyon mine's profits have mysteriously dropped by half despite unchanged operating costs. Between a bone-rattling jeep ride with...18111940s radio drama,arizona desert,detective fiction,expense account narration,fraud investigation,gold mine mystery,insurance investigator,old time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-melanie-carter-matter--73725189https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73725189Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:01:20 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 12th, 1949. A wealthy, wheelchair-bound Beacon Hill widow hires Johnny Dollar to investigate her own niece and nephew — the sole heirs to her fortune — after a family history of insurance murder leaves her convinced the same blood runs...17791949 radio drama,boston noir,detective mystery,family intrigue,inheritance murder,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,old-time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-island-of-tin-yutan--73725184https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73725184Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:01:06 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 5th, 1949. A group life insurance policy on six executives at a New Guinea diving operation turns lethal when two bodies turn up hacked to pieces and four men vanish—leaving the insurer on the hook for $350,000. Johnny Dollar charters a...17801940s detective fiction,high seas voyage,insurance investigator,missing persons,new guinea,old-time radio,south seas adventure,tropical island mysteryfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-little-man-who-wasn-t-all-there--73725183https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73725183Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:01:30 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 29th, 1949. A grieving widower's veiled threats and a string of suspiciously convenient policyholder deaths send Johnny Dollar undercover as insurance bait, riding in a rented limousine from one bereaved family to the next in search of a...17751940s noir,charles russell,detective serial,insurance fraud,johnny dollar,murder mystery,old-time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/witness-witness-who-s-got-the-witness--73584246https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73584246Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:01:23 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 22nd, 1949. A jittery bail bondsman hires Johnny Dollar to track down two missing prosecution witnesses before a mob trial — and before he's out $50,000 in forfeited bonds. Dollar's trail leads to a Hell's Kitchen nightclub singer who...17851940s crime drama,bail bond,detective noir,insurance investigator,missing witness,mob trial,new york noir,old time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-schmedley-diagnosis--73520873https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73520873Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:01:02 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 15th, 1949. Johnny Dollar heads to Los Angeles to investigate Dr. Otto Schmedley, a physician whose insurance company suspects him of criminal malpractice after paying out on two suspicious claims. Posing as an insurance salesman, Johnny...17991940s los angeles,detective fiction,film noir comedy,hypochondria,insurance fraud,malpractice,old-time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-racehorse-pile-driver-matter--73520869https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73520869Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:01:19 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 8th, 1949. Johnny Dollar heads to a Chicago track to protect a champion racehorse from a suspiciously convenient insurance payout. Tipped off by a fast-talking, undersized jockey named Little Nettie Montana, Dollar follows a $50,000 policy...17861949 radio drama,chicago setting,detective fiction,horse racing,insurance investigator,jockey,murder for profit,old-time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fishing-boat-affair--73520867https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73520867Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:01:25 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 1st, 1949. Johnny Dollar heads to the San Pedro waterfront to investigate a $400,000 marine insurance claim after two tuna boats vanish with all hands lost. Between a cagey fleet owner, a bristling ship's captain, and a mysterious woman in...18031949,detective fiction,film noir,insurance fraud,maritime mystery,old-time radio,scuttling,tuna fleetfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-vanishing-policyholder--73520864https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73520864Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:01:19 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 25th, 1949. A $25,000 life insurance policy and a missing beneficiary send Johnny Dollar chasing a cold trail from Hartford to Boston, where he arrives just in time to watch a stranger gunned down on a quiet street corner. The victim's...18011949 radio drama,boston noir,classic mystery podcast,detective fiction,insurance investigator,missing persons,murder mystery,old time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-department-store-swindle-matter--73462136https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73462136Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:01:29 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 24th, 1949. With the Christmas rush in full swing, Johnny Dollar heads to Manhattan to track down a con man working the department store circuit — a smooth operator who fakes a sale, pockets the customer's cash, and vanishes. But when the...18011949 radio drama,christmas mystery,con artist,department store swindle,detective fiction,holiday noir,insurance investigator,old time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-haiti-adventure-matter--73462134https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73462134Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:01:29 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 17th, 1949. Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar heads to Port-au-Prince to look into a dying heir whose $150,000 life policy is about to pay out — the catch being that the family insists he's being killed by a voodoo curse. Between...17921940s detective drama,caribbean setting,charles russell,insurance fraud,johnny dollar,old-time radio,voodoo curse,yacht mysteryfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-circus-animal-show-matter--73462132https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73462132Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:01:42 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 10th, 1949. When circus owner Maximilian Sandro's newly captured black leopard becomes the target of a would-be heist, insurance investigator Johnny Dollar heads to a Brunswick, Georgia lot to find out who wants the rare cat badly enough to...18181949 old time radio,black leopard,carnival setting,circus mystery,detective noir,exotic animal theft,insurance fraud,vintage radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-expiring-nickels-and-the-egyptian-jackpot--73240760https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73240760Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:20 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 4th, 1949. Johnny Dollar answers an urgent cable from an old Army chaplain buddy and finds himself flying halfway around the world through a monsoon, from Hartford to French Indo-China to Calcutta. The mission: reach a dying man whose...18031949 detective series,cairo,calcutta,exotic adventure,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,old time radio,wrongful executionfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-25-000-hog--73217592https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73217592Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:19 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 21st, 1949. Johnny Dollar's latest assignment has him playing bodyguard to Rollo, a champion Poland-China hog insured for a cool $25,000 — but a jewel heist at the county fair turns his babysitting job into a murder mystery in the making....17861940s mystery,americana,comedic mystery,county fair,detective fiction,insurance investigator,jewel theft,old time radiofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-case-of-bonnie-goodwin--73196723https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73196723Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:14 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 7th, 1949. A racketeer with a hundred-grand life insurance policy hires Johnny Dollar to track down a missing girl whose signature he needs — but the trail through Chicago's seediest bars and rooming houses suggests Bonnie Goodwin is...17731940s chicago,detective fiction,film noir,hardboiled mystery,insurance investigator,missing person,old time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-case-of-the-vanishing-taxi-fleet--73196424https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73196424Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:21 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jul 24th, 1949. Johnny Dollar heads to New York to investigate a bizarre string of insurance claims: twelve taxis from the Apex Cab Company have vanished into thin air, and now a driver has been beaten to death defending his. Between grilling...17681949 new york,crime drama,detective fiction,insurance investigator,johnny dollar,old time radio,radio noir,taxi theftfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-case-of-barton-drake--73196338https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73196338Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:00:19 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Apr 22nd, 1949. A $30,000 life insurance policy is about to pay out to a grieving widow — except the New York police think they just spotted her supposedly dead husband on a TV quiz show. Johnny Dollar heads to a suspiciously lavish Long Island...17651940s detective,faked death,insurance fraud,johnny dollar,missing person,noir mystery,old-time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-case-of-the-hundred-thousand-dollar-legs--73196248https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73196248Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:20 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Apr 15th, 1949. Johnny Dollar takes a plum assignment guarding a Hollywood starlet's million-dollar gams for a 48-hour publicity policy, only to arrive at her penthouse and find the modeling shoot's already over, permanently. Between a phone...17441940s mystery,expense account,hardboiled detective,hollywood noir,insurance investigator,murder investigation,old time radio,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-stolen-portrait-of-the-duke-of-massen--73196126https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73196126Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Apr 1st, 1949. Johnny Dollar crosses the Atlantic to investigate the theft of a priceless painting on loan to a London gallery — but the case turns personal when a fellow passenger vanishes from the plane mid-flight, wearing Dollar's own...17731949 radio drama,art heist,classic mystery,detective fiction,insurance investigator,museum theft,old time radio,transatlantic flightfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-half-million-dollar-suicide-threat--73196026https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73196026Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:12 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 25th, 1949. Insurance underwriters call in Johnny Dollar when their $2 million policyholder, playboy Milford Brooks III, threatens to jump out a window unless he's handed a fortune in cash. With a notorious gambler newly named as...17731940s noir,charles russell,detective fiction,expense account narration,gambling underworld,insurance investigator,old-time radio,suicide threat plotfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/murder-is-a-merry-go-round--73195917https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73195917Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 11th, 1949. Johnny Dollar heads to a dusty Alabama carnival lot to investigate a suspicious string of midway accidents that keep landing paying customers in the hospital—while the show's own people stay strangely untouched. Between...17711940s radio drama,carnival mystery,detective fiction,insurance investigator,old-time radio,sabotage,traveling circus,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-robert-perry-case-a-buzzer-a-bomb-and-a-bad-divorce--73195830https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73195830Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:27 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 4th, 1949. Johnny Dollar arrives in lower Manhattan to serve as a bodyguard for a nervous $100,000 policyholder — and gets there just in time to watch him blow up. With a rigged desk-buzzer bomb, a Dutch ex-partner collecting a cashier's...17731949 radio drama,charles russell,detective fiction,insurance investigator,murder mystery,office bombing,old-time radio,whodunitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-slow-boat-from-china--73193138https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73193138Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:08:37 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 25th, 1949. Insurance investigator Johnny Dollar jets from San Francisco to Singapore to unstick a $120,000 cargo ship stranded in port by one mechanical breakdown after another. When the company's own expediter turns up missing from his...17541940s noir,cargo ship mystery,detective fiction,insurance investigator,missing person,old-time radio,singapore,waterfront intriguefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-parakoff-policy--73149445https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73149445Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:07:02 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 18th, 1949. In the very first episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the freelance insurance investigator flies to snowy Benton, Ohio, where a man stands accused of murdering his own business partner — and beneficiary. With $100,000 on the...1774falsefull